USMC grunt, III Corps, 1968-69
Never saw or heard of anything like this.
Never had water delivered to us in the bush.
Paddy water & pills. Impossible to “boil water for 20 minutes”. A quarter sized ball of C-4 would boil water for coffee or cocoa, though.
Hot chow flown out to us twice. C-rats the rest of the time while on an Op. Firebase chow was cooked and served on a tin (stainless steel) tray.
Yup remember those days. When we could get hands on fresh hen laid eggs we could boil about a dozen or so eggs in a steel pot helmet by using a stick or slightly more of C-4 also. We used C-4 for a lot of things I'm sure the Pentagon didn't know or approve off or was designed for either. That and TnT for blowing ant hills the size of cars and Det cord for clothes lines and for cutting down trees on occasion.